Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

The stove not only took up room and scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had lost a companion. You can always see a face in the fire.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.