Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact..

The true success is to labour..

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it..

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes..

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements..

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome..

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth..

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy..

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it….

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and….

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able..

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world..

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the ….

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful e….

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers..

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my la….

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you..

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye..

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend..

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.….

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek..