Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.