Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Luck is the residue of design.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.