It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.