The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

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

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head