A good horse makes short miles.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.