Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.