The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
He would make a lovely corpse.
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.