there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.