People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.