Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.