winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.