Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.