No really great man ever thought himself so.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

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.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!