We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.