One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.