we are so scornful when we are young!

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.