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.

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.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.