A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

The mind paints before the brush.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.