The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.