It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.