Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.