A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.