Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.