Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.