No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

The fearful are the failing.

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