Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.