Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

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

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.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.