The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.