A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.