Confidence is the best proof of love.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.