General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.