When angry, count to a hundred.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.