A new heart for a New Year, always!
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
Reflect upon your present blessings.
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation’s mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Friendship? Yes Please.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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.
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.
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.