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.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.