There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.