I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Dissent without action is consent.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.