There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

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

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

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.