Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

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No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

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after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

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Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

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He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

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Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

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