The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

I wait for the morning of my tears

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.