Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.