quotes from "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table", part III

• He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged. [Benjamin Franklin]
• If they have gardens with elbowed apple-trees that push their branches over the high board-fence and drop their fruit on the side-walk, - if they have a little grass in the side-streets, enough to betoken quiet without proclaiming decay, - I think I could go to pieces, after my life's work were done, in one of those tranquil places.
• Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered... Be very careful to whom you give a side-door key.
• The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature. .. The brain often runs away with the heart's best blood.
  
• There are times in which every active mind feels itself above any and all human books. ... When a man can read, his paroxysm of feeling is passing.
  
• Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
  
• He, (in conversation) veneers in first-rate style.
  
• (The comparison) was that of the mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
  
• ... living in a narrow world of dry habits;