Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

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.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

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.

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.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.