We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

You can kill the body, but not the spirit.