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

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

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

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

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

‘Do you spell it with a ‘V’ or a ‘W’?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’.

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

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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

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

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.

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.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

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.

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.

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

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