The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.