We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.