Patience and gentleness is power.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.