The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.