Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

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

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

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

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.