When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.