The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.