We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.