Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.