Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it. 800
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! 1.42K
t is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade 791
Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. 748
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. 696
One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures 1.61K
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. 600
erhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking 629
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 672
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined … to strengthen each other … to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. 660
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. 576
My childhood was full of deep sorrows — colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. 710
