Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.