We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.