Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.