Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.