Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.