This above all: be true, be true, be true.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.