God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.