The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.