It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.