The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.