You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.