Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!