Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!