Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.