Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely…

As to abuse, I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

I presume your Grand Children are with you, and doubt not that they will afford you every consolation that existing Circumstances will admit. Present me affectionately and sympathetically to them they also have lost a protecting …

Essential honour must be in a friend, Not such as every breath fans to and fro; But born within, is its own judge and end, And dares not sin, though sure that none should know. Where friendship's spoke, honesty's understood; For none can …

A book of poems should have almost as many dedications as titles for the poet must always sing for some friend whether the friend knows it or not