You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us..

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind let….

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into….

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I..

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student..

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory..

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-u….

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger..

When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies ca….

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something ….

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men..

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands,….

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome..

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to su….

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser..

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us..

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first..

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the wha….

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion..

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be gl….