Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

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.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

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.

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.

The pen has shaken nations.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.