The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

Take care of your physique. It's the one place it's a must to reside.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

Helplessness is a mighty power.