Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.