The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, ….

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have..

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance..

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth..

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it..

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neig….

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves..

Wine is bottled poetry..

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know..

I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and tr….

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation fr….

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind..

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart..

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy..

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind..

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity..

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our….

Everyone lives by selling something..

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man..

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtednes….