Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

If my heart were not light, I would die.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.