Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.