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.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.