Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

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.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.