Cats ask plainly for what they want.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.