Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.