If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

When we over emphasis that we need God for every little thing, then we begin to depend on miracles.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.