Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.