Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.