A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.