All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of mediocrity.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Nevertheless, likin’ is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the ‘arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.
No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You’re strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you . . . (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97
…it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.
tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
It’s wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.