It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.