Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.