“There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.”

“O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!”

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.”

“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”

“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”