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.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
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...
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.