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.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.