Children are certainly too good to be true.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.