What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one