Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.