Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.