Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.