The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.