Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.