Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

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

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.

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

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.