In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.