Be a gift and a benediction.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Coal is a portable climate.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.