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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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