There is healing in the bitter cup.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.