Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

A good horse makes short miles.