Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.