The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Example has far more followers than reason.