A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.