Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.