No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.