Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.