Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.