No Music Is So Pleasant To My

If We Really Believed That Those Who Are Gone From Us Were As Truly Alive As Ourselves, We Could Not Invest The Subject With Such Awful Depth Of Gloom As We Do. If We Could Imbue Our Children With Distinct Faith In Immortality, We Should Never Speak Of People As Dead, But Passed Into Another World. We Should Speak Of The Body As A Cast-off Garment, Which The Wearer Had Outgrown; Consecrated Indeed By The Beloved Being That Used It For A Season, But Of No Value Within Itself.

I Do Not Know How The Affair At Canterbury Is Generally Considered; But I Have Heard Individuals Of All Parties And All Opinions Speak Of It And Never Without Merriment Or Indignation. Fifty Years Hence, The Black Laws Of Connecticut Will Be A Greater Source Of Amusement To The Antiquarian, Than Her Famous Blue Laws.

Neither Lemonade Nor Anything Else Can Prevent The Inroads Of Old Age. At Present, I Am Stoical Under Its Advances, And Hope I Shall Remain So. I Have But One Prayer At Heart; And That Is, To Have My Faculties So Far Preserved That I Can Be Useful, In Some Way Or Other, To The Last.

The Boughs Of No Two Trees Ever Have The Same Arrangement. Nature Always Produces Individuals; She Never Produces Classes.

Every Human Being Has, Like Socrates, An Attendant Spirit; And Wise Are They Who Obey Its Signals. If It Does Not Always Tell Us What To Do, It Always Cautions Us What Not To Do.