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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.