Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.