The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.