Experience makes us wise.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.