Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

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.

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

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

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.