A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.