Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

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

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

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

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.