In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.