Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.