Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Cunning is strength withheld.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.