Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.