Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

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

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

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.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.