Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.