Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present.
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.