If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.