In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.