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.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

The food of hope is meditative action.