We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.