Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.