I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Make your best thoughts into action.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.
I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.