The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.