Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

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

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

If my heart were not light, I would die.