Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.