It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

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

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.