Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

The eye is the best of artists.

All promise outruns performance.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.