Love is the world's river of life

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

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.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.