Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.