You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

The devil finds work for idle hands.