Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

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!

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.