Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

Truthfulness is godliness.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.