Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.