The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

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

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

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.

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

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.