I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Children are all foreigners.

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.