We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.