If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.