Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.