I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.