Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.