If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in d...
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.