A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.