Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

Lady you bereft me of all words,<br> Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,<br> And there is such confusion in my powers.

I wish you well and so I take my leave,<br> I Pray you know me when we meet again.

So many men so many questions.<br> (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

Happy the man, and happy he alone,<br> He, who can call to-day his own:<br> He who, secure within, can say,<br> To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.