Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.