In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.