This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Life is so unlike theory.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.