A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.