Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.