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

“ 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. ”

“ Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ”

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

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

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