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.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

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

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