Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.