Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.