Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.