To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

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

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.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.