One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.