There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

To appear rich, we become poor.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.