One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.