I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.