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

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

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.