Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.