There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

God has prohibited despair.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.