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