There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.