To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.