When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.