I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

A well begun is half ended.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.