What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.