Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.