Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.