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

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.