It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?