Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Character is very much a matter of health.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.