He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.