One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.