Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.