There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Men are better than this theology.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.