The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.