We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

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.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

Vanity is often the unseen spur.