Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.