The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.