Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.