Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.