There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.