What I value most next to eternity is time.

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.