Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Fear is cruel and mean.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.