Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.