It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.