We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.