Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.