The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.