No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.