It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.