When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.