Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted.
Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
The eye is the jewel of the body.
There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
We must have infinite faith in each other.
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Time...
We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!