half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

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

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

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

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.