 In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. |
| Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. |
| Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. |
| Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. |
| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. |
| Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. |
| A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. |
| Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. |
| No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. |
| What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. |
| To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. |
| Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. |
| He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. |
| The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. |
| All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. |
| A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. |
| I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Topics: Children |
| Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. |
| I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. |
| Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. |
