Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?