The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.