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

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.