Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.