The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

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.