No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak of it and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.