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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.

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

Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.

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. -Washington Irving.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -Washington Irving.

The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.