Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.