Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.