Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

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.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

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

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.