Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.