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.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.