For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

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

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

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

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.