Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.