May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Patience and gentleness is power.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.