The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.