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

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.

Trees are your best antiques

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.