There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.