English
Author and
Social Commentator
(February 7,
1812 -
June 9,
1870)
"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."
"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."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
"The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose."
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
"We forge the chains we wear in life."
