“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world
“There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
“May you see God's light on the path ahead when the road you walk is dark. May you always hear, even in your hour of sorrow, the gentle singing of the lark. When times are hard may hardness never turn your heart to stone, may you always remember when the shadows fall— you do not walk alone
“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs