Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.