I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.