Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.