Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.