All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.