All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.