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.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.