All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

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.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.