Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Are you a man with a conscience, or just a shark who will die when you stop moving forward?

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

The president made very clear to leaders in Congress from right after the election that repealing and replacing Obamacare will be the first priority of this administration.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.