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

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

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