A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

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