The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.