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

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

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

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.