as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.