Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.