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

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.