What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

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

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

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