The sweetest music for a quiet conscience is the birds’ notes, tuned to the key of nature, by the hand of the great musician—God!


The pains of the mind often afflict the body, more than the pains of the body.


He, who has not sense enough to know he is a brute, will live and die an ass.


Success, either good or bad, has a terrible enemy—memory.

Strange things may fall out in the roasting of an egg.