Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.