We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.