Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.