I wonder why we hate the past so.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?