If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.