It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.