You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.