The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.