The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.