What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.