Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

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!

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.