Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.