The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.