To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.