The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.