Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

If you want learning, you must work for it.