It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.