Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"