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.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

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.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.