A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.