“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

“A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”

“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”

“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.”

“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”

“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“He would make a lovely corpse.”

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”

“I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.”

“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.”

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”

“May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”

“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”

“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”

“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”

“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”

“Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”

“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”

“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”

“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”

“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”

“'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.”

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”

“You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.”