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

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

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

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!