It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

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

To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.