The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Mother is the name for god in the lips and hearts of children.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
