Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like read more

But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in read more

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Presence is more than just being there.

Presence is more than just being there.