True heroism consists in being superior to the 5 ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat. Napoleon.
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; / Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Richard III., v. 2.
True humility is contentment. Amiel.
True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. Henry Giles.
True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense; but it is the sport of sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore; as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child. Carlyle.
True humour springs not more from the head 10 than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.
True influence is latent influence. Renan.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet. Sen.
True joy is only hope put out of fear. Lord Brooke.
True knowledge is of virtues only. Ruskin.