To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.