Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.