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.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

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.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

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

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

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