Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.