People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
Ceremony is all backbone.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
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.