It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

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