Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.