We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.