... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.