The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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

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

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Excess always carries its own retribution.