Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.