Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

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.

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

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

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

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

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.