A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

An undevout poet is an impossibility.