The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.