They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.