The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.