There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

The mind's only perfect vassal.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.