How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.