Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.