The heart has always the pardoning power.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

We are rich only through what we give.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.