And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.