“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye
“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed
“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own