The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.