An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate

The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else

By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

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.

The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that