One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.