The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

There is compensation in all things.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.