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

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

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.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

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

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.