A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.