The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.