What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.