Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.