Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.