Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.