First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

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

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

The more you do, the more you can do.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.