Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.