1. A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.

2. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

3. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

4. Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive.

5. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

6. The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

7. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.