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.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.