Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.