Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.