There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

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

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.