I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."