He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

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

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

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!