A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?