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.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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...
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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.