Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
Live always in the best company when you read.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.