Rage is mental imbecility.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.