The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.