Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.