“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

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

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

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don’t let fear intimidate you.

In this world, fear has no place.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.