Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.