A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.