May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.