A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Read to live, not live to read.

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.