The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.