People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.