Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.