To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.