It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

Pray God, keep us simple.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.