The best hearts are ever the bravest.

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.