Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.