The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.