Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.