If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.