There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.