He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.