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. 838
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! 1.46K
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 834
Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. 792
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. 729
One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures 1.64K
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. 655
erhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking 670
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. 718
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. 696
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. 612
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. 754
