Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.