Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.