There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.