Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Confidence is its own security.
Few save the poor feel for the poor.
who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.