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The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
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There is compensation in all things.
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We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand.
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In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.
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The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
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The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.