The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.