Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.