Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.