What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.