It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.