The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

There is more done with pens than with swords.