They sin who tell us Love can die with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion