Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.