As many suffer from too much as too little.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good – a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and – prayer.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Character is very much a matter of health.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.