A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.