The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.