Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

The easiest way of life is the best.