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

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.