If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

The best of women are hypocrites.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.