When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.