If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.