The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

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

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.