It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.