Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.