A friend is the hope of the heart.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.