If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.