In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.