It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.