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.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.