Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.