Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.