Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.