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

“It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so. ”

“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”

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

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

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”

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

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

“Hatred is self-punishment.”

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