The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

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

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.