A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

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Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

A woman's health is her capital.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.