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

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.