Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

What's money without happiness?