Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.