We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.