A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.