Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.