Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.