Silence is the best response to a fool.

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.