There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.