Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.