Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.