It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres..

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it..

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away..

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving..

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness..

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. P….

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man..

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege..

We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various time….

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesti….

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate ….

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, lik….

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with..

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy..

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America..

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader..

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest..

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself..

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the coun….

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit do….