If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.