There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.