Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.