There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.