It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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

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

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.