Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

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!

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.