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.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.