Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.