Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.