Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

I answer not, and I return no more.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.