What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down,….

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less e….

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone..

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage..

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life..

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive fo….

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes..

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be..

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad..

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today..

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end..

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done..

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone..

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and s….

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for t….

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them..

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short..

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, l….

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in ….

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the ….

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will an….