If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.