A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.