It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.