Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.