we are so scornful when we are young!

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

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.

we are so scornful when we are young!

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.