Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.