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

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.