Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

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

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?