Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.