Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.