Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Keyword(s): Age

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Keyword(s): Heart , Wisdom

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Keyword(s): Love

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
Keyword(s): Age , Time

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Keyword(s): Butterflies

What greater gift than the love of a cat?
Keyword(s): Cats

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.
Keyword(s): Home

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Keyword(s): Laziness , Mind

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Keyword(s): Tears

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Keyword(s): Children

It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
Keyword(s): Night

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
Keyword(s): Walking

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
Keyword(s): Confidence

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
Keyword(s): Health

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
Keyword(s): Marriage

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
Keyword(s): Health

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Keyword(s): Clothing

His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
Keyword(s): Astrology

Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us.
Keyword(s): Water

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Keyword(s): Worry

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
Keyword(s): Light

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
Keyword(s): Walking

It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
Keyword(s): Tax

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick-but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. Let the gardener sweep and sweep the turf as he will, and press the leaves into full barrows, and wheel them off, still they lie ankle-deep.
Keyword(s): Autumn