Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

Hope is necessary in every condition.