As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections..

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into t….

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous si….

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair..

I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental a….

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious..

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's hea….

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all other….

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties..

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth..

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage..

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to….

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind..

I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which beg….

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show ….

The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be ….

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates..

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means..

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste r….

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting..

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us..