Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

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

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.