Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on witho ...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

It's never too late to be who you might have been.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.