It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

Business before pleasure.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.