They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.