Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.