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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.