Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.