Mirth is God's medicine.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.