Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.