If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

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

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.