Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

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

Love is cruel as the grave.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.