Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.

Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.