To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.