The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.