Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

You have delighted us long enough.