There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.