The eye is easily frightened.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?