Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

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

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

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.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.