» To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
» Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
» To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
» Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
» Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
» Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
» My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
» How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
» There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
» Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.