Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

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