The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.