Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.