To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.