The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.