Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.