The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

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.