No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.

What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books!-if you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with the enthusiasm of the adventurer!

We are all tolerant enough of those who do not agree with us, provided only they are sufficiently miserable.

Back of tranquility lies always conquered unhappiness.

Looking at bargains from a purely commercial point of view, someone is always cheated, but looked at with the simple eye both seller and buyer always win.

What we get in the city is not life, but what someone else tells us about life.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread- there may be.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Bring out your social remedies! They will fail, they will fail, every one, until each man has his feet somewhere upon the soil.