Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

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.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.