A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!