Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

The classic literature is always modern.