I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.