Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
A blessed companion is a book—a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
a conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that 'ancient institution,' the old one.
The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is the only which constitutes real greatness.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.