Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.