A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.Collection: Trust
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.Collection: Communication
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.Collection: Men
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.Collection: Love
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.Collection: Nature
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.Collection: Wisdom
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!Collection: Christmas
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.Collection: Christmas
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.Collection: Morning
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Collection: Life
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.Collection: Time
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.Collection: Good
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.Collection: Truth
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.Collection: Home
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.Collection: Age
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.Collection: Home
We forge the chains we wear in life.Collection: Life
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.Collection: Men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.Collection: Men
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.Collection: Best
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.Collection: Freedom
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.Collection: Friendship
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Collection: Men
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.Collection: Christmas
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.Collection: Nature
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.Collection: Strength
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.Collection: Truth
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.