Be Natural My Children. For The Writer

Virtue Shows Quite As Well In Rags And Patches As She Does In Purple And Fine Linen.

There Can Be No Disparity In Marriage Like Unsuitability Of Mind And Purpose.

The Jovial Party Broke Up Next Morning. Breakings-up Are Capital Things In Our School-days, But In After Life They Are Painful Enough. Death, Self-interest, And Fortune's Changes, Are Every Day Breaking Up Many A Happy Group, And Scattering Them Far And Wide; And The Boys And Girls Never Come Back Again.

The Sun Himself Is Weak When He First Rises, And Gathers Strength And Courage As The Day Gets On.

I Wear The Chains I Forged In Life.