No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The best servant does his work unseen.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.