“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
