No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.