Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.