Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

---

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

---

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven

---

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

---

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

---

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

---

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

---

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

---

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

---

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

---