A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.