The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.