It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.