We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.