Fear loves the idea of danger.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.