A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Too many piglets not enough tits.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.