There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.