Grief alone can teach us what is man.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.