The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.