Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.