The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.