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.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.