Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

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