Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.