New Year's Day is every man's birthday.Collection: New
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.Collection: Beauty
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.Collection: Legal
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.Collection: Time
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.Collection: War
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Collection: Legal
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.Collection: Beauty
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.Collection: Friendship
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.Collection: Strength
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.Collection: Friendship
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.Collection: Memories
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.Collection: Poverty
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.Collection: Character
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.Collection: Reading