We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.