Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

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.

Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.