It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

Frequent the company of your betters.

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

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

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

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.