A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

Rank is a great beautifier.