Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.