A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

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.

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

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

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.