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

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

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

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.