The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
A great mind must be androgynous.
And in today already walks tomorrow.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon the mind, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.