A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Mystery is not profoundness.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.