The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

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.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.