Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

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.

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

Passive perception promotes pessimism

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.