“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment”

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment”

“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day”