It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

Be kind. Aim for my heart.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

It is only the dead who do not return.