It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.