Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.