We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

let's forget the hope, it's the secondary thing to motivate.the primary one is to approach for it.

I believe the world only gives us what we seek to find.

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

If you think you stink, you probably do.

Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.

I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.