Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

A good death does honour to a whole life.