Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.