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

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.