Trees are your best antiques

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.