There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.