Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.