The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?