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

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.