There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

We are so very 'umble.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.