The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.