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| Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish | | Uncategorized | |
| Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand | | Novelty | |
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| Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman | | Men and Women | |
| She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions. | | Uncategorized | |
So he sighed and pined and ogled,
And his passion boiled and bubbled,
Till he blew his silly brains out,
And no more was by it troubled. | | Uncategorized | |
Tell me what find we to admire
In epaulets and scarlet coats --
In men, because they load and fire,
And know the art of cutting throats? | | Uncategorized | |
| That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish | | Uncategorized | |
| The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. | | Uncategorized | |
| The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. | | Uncategorized | |
| The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. | | Uncategorized | |
The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell.
It is an irksome word and task:
And when he's laughed and said his say,
He shows, as he removes the mask,
A face that's anything but gay. | | Uncategorized | |
The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,
Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring. | | Uncategorized | |
| The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. | | Uncategorized | |
| The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. | | Literature; Power; Writers | |
| The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? | | Uncategorized | |
The world has battle-room for all.
Go fight and conquer if ye can.
But if ye rise or if ye fall,
Be each, pray God, a gentleman! | | Uncategorized | |
