He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.