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

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

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