Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

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

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.