There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

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!

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

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

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.