“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
“Good and bad men are less than they seem.”
“No one does anything from a single motive.”
“What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.”
“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.”
“Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”
“Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.”
“Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.”
“To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.”
“The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.”
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”
“What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
“How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!”
“Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.”
“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
“The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.”
“Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”
“Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.”
“Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.”
“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”