Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.