The food of hope is meditative action.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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

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.