For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Mother's love grows by giving.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.