The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.