Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?