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

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.