Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.