the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.