Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.