We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is receiv….

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal..

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding..

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!.

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….

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..

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

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

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

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….

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

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things..

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

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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.….

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 are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign..