Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.