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.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.