The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.