To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.