Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.