What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.