Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do …

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

Steadfast of thought, Well made, well wrought, Far may be sought, Ere that ye can find So courteous, so kind As merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle a…